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NO. 11. SATURDAY, MARCH 12,1911
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Entered as second-cUs* matter January S. 1910.
at the poatoffire at Oklahoma C ity, Oklahoma, un-
der the art of March 3. 1679.
Businessi and editorial department, suite 306.
ruriomce Building.
Address all communications to
THE industrial democrat CO .
P. O. Box 313. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
M \RV1N BROWN. Ms murine Editor
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MM AND SOCIAL EQUALITY
'Wo havt"' falsehoods to defend
We i£S the facts;
Our force, vve do not spend.
In rain attacks.
And we will never meanly try
To save some fair and pleasing lie."
; tlicr of one of the partners in the
I steel business.
They will have to unite workers
'from every country of the globe, that
speak almost eviry language ard
| they will have to fight almost v lth-
count of race, color or creed. So- out organization,
ciailsm has no color lino and no creed Shall we see another Homestead?
line. We demand for the black work- j Will Morgan keep his threat to
ruan exactly what we demand for crush forever Union Labor nnil starve
TO THE UNDESIRABLES
- with which he must work to provide
1 claim that the Socialists of Eu- himself with the necessities or !ux-
rope, and of the large American ’-Ties of life. Socialism demands
cities, make war upon our marriage economic equality for all. Social,
system, and believe in free love; equality is not a demand of Sooial-
tbe white workman- ownership and them into subission?
democratic management of the tools j Will it break the Civic Federation
in which Taft, Phipps, Cam jgie.
Gompers and Mitchell are King jdns?
live when he asks you to send him
back to the lick log in November.
-- | When November rolls around, go to
The column devoted to the Democrat the pells, take a good square squint
Hustlers, the boys in the trenches who at your tax receipt, then vote,
make the wheels go ’round, is omit- j —---------
ted this wt-ek for the simple reason
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Watson's Duplicity
Will it end In a
that the editor is swamped. Comrade
Armstrong, who handles the mail and
takee care of the subs, tells me that
942 cubs have been received since I
called on him for .he re-port last week.
The hook which holds these letters is
full, and were I to undertake to read
big union of the them before going to press with this «« ratified by a nation-
al conference of labor organizations
in St. Louis. The St. Iamls conven-
tion adopted a act of resolutions nnd
BY N. B. WILKINSON.
There are two distinct classes of
The defunct populist party, of Socialists; and In both of these rlas-
which Tom Watson is the leading ses there are many different species
npestle, was organized in Cincinnati, ! But 1 do not care to write of the So-
Ohio, Moy 19, 1891. On February 22. clfillsts whom we are ui) familiar
1892, the action of the Cincinnati
men and a big union of the boasts number you wouldn’t get a paper for
, „ working together like the railway j two weeks. I have glanced at a few
that they oppose the private owner- *sm- Because my negro neighbor has bosses and employees? Or will it be 0f the mos* 0Dtimistic xnr
ship of land and e very other means 8:1 equal right with me to life, liber- a real fight and a great victory that some of these letter's and'fee'l°nS
of production; that they believe in *7 aI“* pursuit of happiness does will give heart to the workers of this
racial and social equu.ity; that they not Imply that ho shall associate land?
combat the church and religion- and "‘fh nie on term.", of social equality----
with-
that their creed dissolves home life,
»s we know it.—Tom Yvatsoti.
The Peruary number it Wilson’s
lofforsonluu (?) Magazine has reach
•Ml our dark--and It's a peai!. —rips
and Juicy wit ; Tuininyrot's ■ karat?
(eristic v'uiora again** F nudism nnd
a ten page miscarriage
adultery.
lJke Worry title Jennings, ol
the Piatto, Watson has turned politi-
es! defeat into victory by entering
the publishing business, and is get-
ting rich by exploiting the slaves of
the ‘'new" south. It is authoritative-
ly stated that Watson has come in-
to possession of a good deal of Geor
gia realty and is making It pay b
or Inequality.
Socialism does not teach nor as-
sume that all men or all races at •
equal. It recognizes the fact that no
two men are exactly alike, and for
that reason it is impossible for man
The Party Owned Pi-ess
more
than ever inspired to greater effort.
The record for the past week will
stand out bold In’ the history of this
paper, whatever the future may be. I
Socialists of this stav have heard
more or loss agitation recently,
from various sources,' in favor of a
kind to be other than unequal in ai- owned-press.
most every attribute. The only
of mental equality sought by Socialists Is an .
equality of opportunity to work and r, ont_
live. I want to devote a few lin ts to
drafted a platform of principles, j the genuine, blown-ln-the-bottle, all
many of which were incorporated In wool and a yard wide HOG BociailsU
the populist, or people's party, plat- ! that wo meet up with every day of
form at the convention in Omaha, jour lives.
_________ _______ _ ^ _ Neb., July 4, 1892, when James B. j Now we all know what a hog is.
don’t know where to "place the credit Weaver* of ,owa- an,J lames G. Field, And we know what a hog disposition,
for this master stroke, but of one °f Virg,nln’ wcr'J nominated for pro- j or characteristic. Is. We have In mlml
thing I am sure, the Socialiets of this
state are determined to stay by the
paper which is hewing to the straight
edApre3rortL0^tIho^p°rr"' rXse^oXtiy re farces of wealth, is the heritage °f animal that always wants, not only
tu i'1®88 or ine pii'ai o nc (i puss L , ... ... ALL tho people*. and should not *'•* nf »>vnrwniitw» h..« ** »
those people who, In season j Judicial officers, with all the bund
and out of season, go about over the , reds of thousands of minor United
world in a ceaseless effort to make States, slate, county and municipal
the world a better place In whb-Jt to j officer*. All hating Socialism, and
ail fightihg it, because, you know. It
would destroy Iniutlv., and lake away
the incentive of any person to do
any thing iu the world.
Start out any dnv, at any hour,
and you can not go five blocks in any
__ city Iu the land that you do not niter.
sldent and vice-president respectively a porcine, four legged, hairy unimnlj T?,’ .
on that ticket. Section nine of that with bristles up and down its back. " ”l *" " " ' “ *--*■
platform reads In part as fallows Usually a strong, well fed, slc-*k, pug-
"The land, including all the natural naeious, pushing, selfish, egotistical,
for each to get the full value of what
he would produce. No artificial regu-
lation can make men equal who are
born with cr acquire different de-
grees of ability; but the instilutions
of society, ali of which are made by
man. can be so disposed as to re-
ward each in proportion to what he
dots, be that great or small. And this
,r -t■«■
association were mutu-
iSquallty of opportu-
....--------— ........... ;.,„n h j ttithm,, n,Vi *, o „„„ 11 SI CS II. UI1I1 Slime pi'incl-
ra_ean8.°f Ch.eap CCl.0red. Iab0r'. ,The of people associate with another race p,<B W,U t0 th,‘ 8oc‘a»*‘ I***
or any other party, and while it is
true that, the graveyard of privately
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favor of putting the Georgia negroes it|^ \ the man born with cxaropl3 of t,le PM‘Y or co-operative-:* Socialists by Tom Watson, the
"" - » “'i*h *•“ '‘-an- n'"he' Ca" U’e ,nan b°rn W,th ly owned paper to point to. Not onei * ......* - ----- *-
be t'i’ best of everything, but ALL of
managed by competent and exper- |'*J*^r,S“rDeSC^*|°"*1| “”ed ho!!!0^0'"9 -Another section or tho same plat- manger disposition; if it can’t eat all
■ iced p.iople but the party executives | P ' form uses this significant language: there is in a trough, It still insists
who are familiar with the fate of par ^°'th« * w,e "Wealth belong, to him who creates tbnt no other hoglunless the other
ty owned papers are not likely to r««'« we betttr paper you will !tf , i( „„a ,_____ ... s,.., .................. __
bo favorably impress .>d with such an j eemember that,
undertaking in Oklahoma at this time, j
Under the present system anybdy
with the money and the ambition is ,
free to engage in the newspaper busi-
ness if he sees fit and same prinei-
dustry without an equivalent is rob- is—shall Iffivo any of the swill. At,d
THE HOME EDITION.
unprecedented growth of Socialism , ,
and tho prospects of its early triumph U"‘‘f8S 81 ,,
throws Tommy into a violent fit of nIlv !,?r‘eable'
i.l>e fantods, and he
In
The Industrial Democrat No.
13, week after next,, will be
known as the Home Edition.
In this edition we will answer
the last of a series of five
questions propounded to the
bury, 'if any man will not work 1 >lth-
er shall he eat.”’
To directly connect Tom Watson
with these principles we icfcr you
to die people's party convention held
in St. Louis, Mo., July 22, 1896. The
party endorsed W. J. Bryan for pre-
sident and nominated Watson for
vice. One of tho opening sentences j
this is the MOO SOCIALIST the
world over. But tho porcine* animal
has at least one vlitue which his bi-
ped hog Socialist brother does not
have. When he gets his belly fml
hci goes off and lies down io sloop,
and Ids another hog get up to the
swill barrel.
may only be a l!t;le dinky Justice or
the peace, road overseer, post office
Inspector, county officer, city officer,
postmaster, or other bifurcated poli-
tical circumstance, but he in nearly
, always “agin" Socialldn, because, you
| know, everybody would have Io i,
employed by the Government and it
would be autocratic; would destroy
incentive and prevent inlitive, and
wipe out Individualism, you know,
nnd all these things would develop—
In the nitrtds of those HOG SOCI YL
ISTS—at least seven different kind,
of Hell.
Go talk to one of these uin-com-
poops and nine out of ten will tell
yon that they oppose Socialism be-
cause it would compel every one to
work fur tho Government, and yet
on a level with the slave drivers , , , , ,
who aro exploiting them under wage f„ !.,‘"ad<> ??Ual
slavery with equally as good, if not
hotter, results than “befo de wah.”
Watson charges that Socialists be-
lieve In racial nnd social equality,
•end in doing so seeks to prejudice
the Ignorant whites uf the south
against Socialism, at the same tlmv
ers would elect their own foreman
; and superintendents, they would not
have black bosses unless by their
own choice.
Whatever may be- said of the So-
■ onsclous mat he is a hypocrite and tr‘a,,,8t8’ ‘,h®y aro not afraid to stato
j their position
to tho individual horn with a large , Tho D™oerat ‘tself would not. ob-
brnin of fine quality. Since the work- 10 b,'in- >’art>’ owned* Provided
a faisiflJr In the act.
on any question that
„ , bobs up. but that’s n whole lot more
It has been said from old that the than enu be said of tho old parties,
leopard cannot change its spots, nor 0n tho front COVJr of evcry ls3ue or
i io Ethiopian his skin, and we realize. Watson's magarino can be found the
ih< irutn of the adage. j motto, "Equal rights to all—special
Socialists do not look upon the ne- privileges to none." And every slate-
tho management was good, but wo j
surmise that the Socialists would
rather see us rustle for business and
the necessary revenue to keep it go-
ing than to sit idly on the poeketbook j
of the party while tho comrades In
the trenches "dug up” the sinews.
There are several Socialists (?) who
would like for the party to own a
paper if the party would foot the
'.nils and let them run the paper. By
litis method such self seekers as we
have in mind could “preserve and
safeguard” their own interests and
gro as a problem hut as a working- ment Inside the cover gives the lie tZ r 0Wn mach no to a quern’, taste
man. The economic interests of all to tho motto on the -......... —- u‘‘lrov'n machine to a quern s taste,
outside, and
wot kora, be they white, black, brown thereby hangs a tale,
or yellow, arc identical, and e.il ar< j The Socialist ,:arty is the only po-
ind tided in the program of Socialism. Iltlcal party In existence which be-
Sooiaiists have no program separate lieves in equal suffrage, equal rights
na,,onal,t‘®s' and “V1Rl opportunity for all, regard- it V\7no7Zht^nTl^
1 he Socialist party is a party for the less of sex or color, Tom \\ atson,
working class, and its program for C. N. Haskell and other cuttle of
the Industrial emancipation of that their ilk to the contrary, notwith-
ciss* knows no distinctions on ac- standing.
apostle of Populism and the
sage of Thomson. We will
handle him without gloves +
and hang his hide out to dry. *£■
In addition to this the edition *
will contain valuable statistics *
on the condition of American 4*
homes at the present time and +
an estimate * . what they +
would be or should be under +
Socialism. If you desire extra +
copies of this edition to hand 4*
to your friends let us Hava +
your order at an early date so 4*
w« will be prepared to furnish 4-
them. The price will be fifty 4"
4* cents per hundred for distri- *
4- bution. *
Immune from his presence. He never i *n the outfit, front the big fatty, splne-
uleeps. Ho is always on the alert—j *’’** molly-coddle in the whlto house
for himself. He knows no law but; down to the road supervisor will, as
get-there; no God but success, nn.) 1 have before stated. He. steal, tom-
no Heaven but OFFICE. He Is ihe|mlt P’wJury and bribery, and do ev-
111811 Who will Ho, steal, commit per- or>' "“'“n a^t under tho sun to get
but—
Would that suit tbe party9 —-~
We fear that it would not. What are you doing to increase tbe
Not only that, but the fact remains [circulation of this paper?
that the privately owned paper can----
QUESTIONS ON INE STEEL STRIKE
BY ROBERT HUNTER.
Interesting news arrives day by A director of the steel trust is
•lay from South Bethlehem, Pennsyl- Henry Phipps who likes to give away
vania. [ money and therefore likes the steel
On February 6th it was announced workers io make plenty of it for him.
that Charles M. Schwab and Charles Then there is Chwlea M. Schwab
P. Taft, tbe brother of the President.; who HKe» Monte Carlo and U fond tf
were going into partnurab'p. i having steel orke s make dm pi ■»-
They Intend to get or already have j ^ raoucj’ !u U|,<0 ' *5r''
some big steel contracts from the There are other gentlemen of fair
government, in any <ase they Intend repine and ot ttueal lower- that are
to build an enormous null Tor the g< big to have a hand in any waifare
purpose of producing guns, srinonr, between Capital nnd Iatbor ir. the
and engines for the new ilreadnaughts. !,,eel business.
lust at present there is a strike at The most Interesting bit of news
South Bethlehem. It is said that it is is of c ourse that Charlie Taft ha
gone into tho game. The next most
interesting bit of news is that the
United States government is award-
ing contract?- *o brother Chatles to
make battleships.
of interesting news;
why the good papers live and deliver
the goods while the milk and elder
concoctions go the cemetery route.
As far as we know any of the private-
ly owned papers would gladly carry
the official matter and save the com-
rades several hundred dollars a year
in the expense of bulletins, etc., from
the state office, yet that's their busi-
ness, the same us running the Demo-
crat is our business, and if everybody
is satisfied, what's the
Oh You Taxpayer
But the HOG SOCIALIST. We have
in this platform, upon which Watson him every where. No community is almost every hypocritical pap-sucker
stood, makes this declaration:
"Tho people's party, assembled in
national convention, reaffirms its al-
legiance ----to the principles of just
government as enunciated in the plat-
form of the party in 1892.”
In the tr.nuary issue of Watson's Jti'-y, bribery, and In fact almost ev- oa« °T these offices. And, of course,
magazine he uses this language: j«ry crime In tho catalog to win out, j u,*’y all Insist that a laboring mail
"No matter tiy what legal or honest [and get a taste o{ practical .Socialism, nets ail he earns, hut every one of
method my neighbor got his house,; but who will just as strenuously op th. in, from big Bill down, is very sun-
or his farm, it is right that I should pose a socialistic condition for any [That he earns more than he gobs, aud
pay for the hire of It, if ] wish to use one else as one hog opposes any oth-|norl<s for an Increase.
l!---- -I " HI Prove to your complete er hog getling any of the swill Now j Now just keep your eyes open,
satisfaction, that the origin of pri- you all know a HOG SOCIALIST and your ears rocked and whenever
vate property was not only just, but when you see him, and you nil see‘you hear some fellow talking about
him, in different form.!, every day losing his Individuality, and 11 t
of your life. He is a national, state, tlve being destroyed if we should
county, municipal or other '.olltlcid have Socialism, and nine time, in
"was not only Just, but sacred,” office holder. He Is legion The Pre- ten hy is a HOG Socialist or is to-
wns indeed refreshing, and with sldent is tne B08S HOG SOCIALIST leg to get nominated on some capi-
tiuteh anxiety we awaited the arrival —and If he Is not a typical hog, where lailst ticket so Iq- enu he cne or
of the February number of the Jet- will you, in all rile world, find one? hope, to get appointed a deputy goon
And then there comes the Vice Pres- tiling or other. In other words they
sldent, with all the propensities of are working like Satan to get Into po-
tin BOSS HOG, but with a limited sitlon which they assert will ruin
swill barrel. And then, perhnps next men. Shakespeare well says. "What
line, are tile bewlgged, antedeiu- fools these mortals be.*
sacred.”
His promise in February to prove
in March that private ownership of
land
the first skirmish of the general la-
mr war that is Io take place ’•elwe-m
he steel trust and its employees.
Charles M. Schwab r< fust s to treat
vith the labor leaders. He wrn't have ______________
inything to do with the n ard Ir.ti rds (t,r|,t pn
o run his business Just as he likes.
He te one of the favored speakers
it Civic Federal!jn ■linu*. rs tut he
lotsnl associate with common ordl-
ary .teal workira.
On February 14th the t.< wg arriv-
d that Samu ■! Ce; i per.:, prc.'dent
f the American Federation of Ij.bor,
atends to go South I* ■ lit hem to
ake charge of the stnk".
It Is said he is going there to begin era of Pennsiyvania ate hirelings and
Wlmt are you doing to Increase the
j circulation of this paper?
Jeff Davis, the idol of the “hill bil-
lies” seems to be having hard sledd-
ing up at Washington. He is accused
of having remarked/that if a certain
bill passed the senate there would tu-
ft good fee In it for Jeff. Certainly
Jeff wouldn’t “soli out.”
Our comrades in New Mexico a.id
Arizona are net much worried over
their failure to secure statehood.
They are pretty well acquainted with
tne last four years of Oklahoma his-
tory, and realize that the longer
statehood is deferred the better will
bo the chance to get Socialist repre-
sentation in the constitutional con-
vention. S**C ?
is that Samuel Gompers has left his
petitions to Charles Taft's brother at
Washington and has moved on to the
seat of war.
Another interesting thing is that
the war is t*» start in Dennslyvania
which is 1 uelieve one of the prov- long press interview explaining that
Inces of Russia. j the "special" didn't cost much and
And It Is rotten. From Its senators that "everything is lovely ar.d the
down to its cossacks the ruling pow- goose hangs high ” Don’t take Has
Information from Guthrie is to the
effect that the people are to be bor-
ed for two more weeks with ihe spe-
cial session of misrepresent at ives.
For two months work this aggrtjga-
lion of political acrobats can be rn cl-
ip'll with the following:
The postponement of taxes.
The passage of four administra-
use kicking? tlon tax measures.
-- The general revenue bill.
The railroad revenue tax bill.
The corporation license tax bill.
The county excise bill (which is
being threshed out by the legisla-
ture.)
The appropriation of {750,000 for
state departments, schools and the
Insane asylums.
Of the total legislation, only the
postponement of taxes is regarded
as an emergency measure. The other
measures could readily have been pas
sed to the fall regular session, ac-
cording to the admissions of both de-
mocratic and republican leaders.
The postponement of taxes iigisla-
tion tins cost tin state over 1200.-
OftO.OO.
Thf? county excise bill may be
thrown in and counted as an emer-
gency measure to help share the cx-
lersonian (9) Jingle. He gives So-
j ciailsm 12 pages of free advertising,
las usual but I he sum total of evidence
that private proarty in land Is just
; and sacred Is contained in one para-
graph, towit:
"In the Old Testament, we find
Abraham asserting title to a well
which he had sunk, on land that did
not belong to him. After a deal of
contention and strife, his claim was
allowed, on the ground that he had
digged that well. Isaac dug several
wells in the same region, gave them
names, and claimed them as bis pro-
perty.”
In the presence of such logic as
this we are dumfounded to say the
least. Watson charges that the So-
il a lists are fooling tne people by
I
■YJVWW1,
OLD TRUST RIDDEN PHILADELPDIA
C II Ruth, formerly of Uhliadel- had conferred In tho office of A. J.
pbi.i, but now a resident of Oklahu- Cassatt. It wag generally known that
,na Tilly and councilman from tbe governor Pennypaoker, would appoint
thia to say about the man recommended by Penrose
preaching one doctrine in the big dora is
second ward, has
his former home:
"Philadelphia, tho city of brother-
ly love, founded by William Penn,
and tho birthplace of American free-
entire j Hessians.
Ye work of unionizing I
eel Industry. | They rule the people of that state
These are straws that Indicate that with an Iron hand, from the city of
amethlng may lie doing in tb” next brotherly iove to th hellish fumes
w months. j of the coke regions.
The steel trust magnates a-e nn j There exists in that state
----- j expense, which is in excess of $1.-
One half of governor Haskell’s 600 per day. If the excise bill passes
time is taken up in making apologies the session will be continued from
and explanations for his action dur- March 12 to M i h :.0 and sot II or
ing the other half After the "special” ti0.000 be added to the taxpayei’s
session adjourns you can look for a burden.
The amounts already anpropriat.’d
by the legislature for its own runn-
ing expenses are:
Contingent expense:
anything. Lock at First appropriation ___________$50,000
j Second appropriation ........ 30,000
------ ; Salaries .................44,000
cities, and another In the rural com-
munities. If Watson himself Isn't a
deceiver and falsifier, Pv preaching
one doctrine in bis magazine and tun-
ning for office on another, the Demo-
crat fiits to understand the construc-
tion of English language.
Did you make note last week of the
additional appropriation for the “spe-
cial” session of the legislature at
Guthrie? 1 ,<M>k at your tax receipt,
then vote.
In marked contrast to the majority
of injunctions wi’h which we ara fa-
miliar. the injunction of district judge
(’dark of Oklahoma City, res!mining
the city health hoard from enforcing izcnsltip. Henry Clay,
its damnable and compulsory vaccina-
tion order stands out boldly to ihe
credit of the judge.
now owned by corporation::
The
people
issue before the American
is Socialism, revolutionary
and the rights of laboring men are
trampled under the Iron heel of cor-
poral ion greed.
"Philadelphia is owned and control-
lid, body and soul, by the United
Gas Improvement Co., and the Phila-
delphia Rapid Trantit Co., just as the
state Is under tho thumbs >f the Pen-
nsylvania, the Delaware, Lackawan-
na & Western, and the Reading rail-
roads. Whatever they want, they get
for little or nothing and tho dear
public is left to hold the bag.
“But this is not the first time that
the people have been driven to the
point of almost open rebellion. It, has
occurred several times and i wonder
at the forbearance of the common cit-
whom mayor
Reyburn, the former United States I
congressman made director of public j
safety, is a stockholder of the P. R. i
T.
“When trouble br*?ws between thr.
street car .at n anj the traction com-
ami McNichol. Tiicso two men were
asked by newspaper men whom they
would r scorn mend as they were on
their way to Cassatt's off I so. They
did not know. Two hours later when
they were seen to come from the
building in which Cassatt’s office
was located and whore B.ter nnd the
head of the Lackawanna had also
been seen to go, they said; ‘P. (\
Knox is the man.*
"Tl e above incident is common
knowledge among newspaper men
of Philadelphia, although It probably
has never been given to the world.
The question is: to whom does I*. C.
Knox owe his recommendation for
appointment to the senate vacancy?
He has been known as a corporation
lawyer all his life.
"it will almost take a revolution,
or a San Hfranel*co disaster to put
Philadelphia on her right logs again.
The National Platform
kell's word for
your tax receipt.
and clear cut. Jt is tbe only solution pany he orders the firemen out for
Just how "ail men are equal before
the law" is shown by the following
facts: Henry M. Flagler, president of
nothing the Standard Oil company had a wife
roaring crowd of industrial pirates. . for the p'-ople but flra and brimHtoni woo was in-an? Ther< was no state
hey are beaded by .Morgan w:io the- , and an overworked satin.
sob union leaders and ’heir tollow-
w
Hi* right hand : i .a W
i-rklna who has h»1 the goo-1 sense
bribe forty thousand cruployeca of
e steel trust with stock.
The man who Hold* the mortgage
> the steel trust is otr Id friend
-drew Carnes: - ■• • '•
■new «t Homes: ad •>? ' >w m p
union labor.
And so we ask ourselves what shall
!?•' qf*P *
The Strei Workers will hare to
fight the most powerful group of
capitalists that any country has ever
! know n.
j They will have to fight the most
brutal and corrupt state govern men!
^hat tho world has ever known,
j They wilt have to fight the t'nli-D
(States government headed by a bro-(circulation of this paper?
quite brutal enough to allow a man
to divorce his insane wife, so Flagler
, went to Florida and got the legisla-
ture to make a Jaw permitting divorce
for the crime of insanity. Flagler
got his divorce ail right and the leg-
islature almost immediately repeal-
ed the law- There is “civic righ-
teousness” for you under capitalism.
What are you doing to increase the ■
$121,000
The salary account will need bol-
stering by the passage of another
$25,000 appropriation ar>.*! :he ontin-
gert fund will need a small add it ine
to piece out tha s ession.
Tho coat of a day sisaloa Is:
I4C legislators ($6 a
rmplo
to the problems which must be met,
and it's the worst of folly to tamper
with palliative compromises. They
have always failed, and always will,
for the simple reason that they don't
touch the root of the problem
A congregation at the St. Luke's
M E. church In Oklahoma City lart
Sunday morning raised $4,740 to es-
tablish a mission homo in Korea. Th:t
home will be built of stone and will i
cost $5,000. No mention was made
of the 8<*veraJ hundred pole shack*
occupied i<y cot ton pickers in the
3rd out. paste
$2,519
it in your
southern
you "feilers”
toes through
of Oklahoma. Some of
who slept with your
the crags last winter
public duty. During the recent strike
there, he quartered th*1 *olice and
firemen in the car barns of the trac-
tion company Iu order that they
might he used on the strikers.
“What can the people expect in the
war of fairness from him and why
wit) they not expect bloodshed when
one of tbe men In charge of the situa-
tion for the people Is a part owner
of the P. n. T.?
“Pennsylvania itself In under the
thumb of the corporation. Philander
C. Knox »»» chosen t*. 3. senator
only after J. M McNichol, Itoir Pen-
rots**, senator atid of the stats*
YY'e reprint in this issue ot the
Democrat the national platform ol
the Socialist party, adopted in nat-
ional convention at Chicago in 190b.
Since this is campaign year In Ok-
lahoma the national platform will
Piove valuable propaganda and
should be placed in the hands of ev-
ery voter in the state between this
and the next election.
Several comrades have written to
us for the platform in circular form
to be used for this purpose, but we
•ire able to supply extra papers con-
taining ibe pint! >i tu ai 50 cents a
hundred and we aro sure that tils
method will prove more satisfactory
In addition to the platform the reci-
pient win get the benefit d other
matte- in the paper and a double pur-
p«-se can be serv -d without extra «*f-
machine. president Ha--r. pr -.-•ideiu
George F. Baer of the Reading, piesi-
and had ’em frostbitten better apply dent A. J. Cassatt of the Pettnaylvan- fort,
hat and show it to your represent*- for a Job a* missionary to Korea. ! ia. and the head of the Lackawanna, J Bend iu your order* for th
A TRIBUTE SOCIALISTS
vian moss-barked supreme court jud-
ges. And then tho United Stales
senators, nnd congressmen, and mem-
bers of the cabinet, and the gover-
nor* of the several states, and their
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